Straight to the POINT

AN INTERESTING piece of information revealed on a BBC programme recently is that 60,000 social housing tenants in this country have other investment properties. Is there not something seriously wrong here?

JANE TAYLOR, Leeds. A NEW planet, Kepler-452b, with Earth-like conditions has been found. Any chance of waiting for its taxpayers to foot the bill for finding us?

BARBARA THOMAS, Billingshurst, Sussex. THE discovery of a new Earth is good news for our Department for International Development, which is having difficulty finding good causes on this Earth to give away our money to.

SIDNEY REDHEAD, Grimsby, Lincs. IF LABOUR MPs are really determined to make Labour unelectable, a Jeremy Corbyn-Dennis Skinner dream ticket would seal the deal.

KURT CHARLES, Howden, East Yorks. HAVING just watched a TV programme, I’ve had a Eureka! Moment: I’ve decided on a career for one of my grandsons. He can marry a chunky girl, fatten her up a bit more, then become her carer and make £700 a month. Result!

Mrs ROSEMARY HYDE, Slough, Berks. AT 9AM on Friday, the UK was using 33/34 GW of electricity, to which wind power was contributing less than 1 per cent. And this is meant to be our ‘carbon-free’ future.

PHILIP N. MORTIMER, Bognor Regis, Sussex. THIRTY-FIVE thousand pounds for a Nick Clegg speech (Mail). Shouldn’t that be 35p?

JOHN H. ISRAEL, Bromley, Kent. ANYONE who has ever hailed a cab could be said to have executed a ‘Nazi salute’ — but it’s only a Nazi salute to those who want it to be.

JEM TUGWOOD, Worthing, Sussex.